I haven't found it yet, but it ain't this one.
What's this you shout aghast, Drubbing gone way downmarket? The SBAD must be terminal with this one. No. I already understand I'm not a completely normal and self-consciously always trying to keep away from the edge of the cliff.
This was a gift from Pjotr. I think it was a thank you for the Bluebeards Revenge, but he was too shy to say. Either way, he left the price tag on there - he wasn't shy about that. I never do that, because I always want people to guess my level of magnanimous generosity, but no such fancy airs and graces with our Pj. He went the whole (rock bottom shelf) hog and lashed out $1.75.
Given we live only a few k's apart, I can't decide whether he posted it to me to make it look like he spent some actual cash, or he was just too lazy to drop it in. Even so, it was pretty dumb. The postage cost him three times the brush.
What can you say about a $1.75 boar bought at one of country WA's general stores, where Pj suggest the yokels aren't so much the missing link, but more the lost tribe? The sort of place he describes as a one-horse town, but the store has a petrol bowser? A place where tinned peaches and beef jerky go out of date, and they are. It's cheap, that's what you can say.
Pj suggested I keep it for fun or PIF it. I thought I'd best not to make too many enemies online, and to try it out before offloading it on some poor sap who's listened to my inane rambling on the regality of the boar. I doubt this would be representative of the genre. I was right.
Let's check the quality on this thing. Well, its wood. It's painted (briefly) and it's got hair.
I'm no photographer, but no, you're not seeing things. It leans to the left all the way from the base of the handle to the tips. You can't see it in these pics, but the ring knot fits like a glove – if an octopus was wearing it.
I won’t say the blond knot is prickly, but if it were a comedian, it'd be Joan Rivers. I'm actually surprised some tips have started to split; I expected they would be clipped. It's must be a perverse sort of skill not to clip them, and still end up with something that's as uncomfortable as seeing the mother in law naked.
Having taken the piss, it does work. But this is as basic as it gets; if Semogue sell the BMW of boars, this reminds me of my first car, a Simca 1000; passengers had to help me get the gear stick into reverse.
I reckon the $5 boar at Coles could edge it out, but this one would have to start out in front because it hasn't dropped a hair. That's pretty impressive for less than $2. Guessing at the knot size alongside a couple of my boars, I'm thinking 20mm and 50mm loft, so it's always going to be on the scrubby side. My Semogue 1460 is 22/50, but is softer to the touch.
Here it is lathered up with some Tabac. As you might expect, it showed the soap no mercy; I have little bristle claws through the top of the soap.
So you can use it, and it'll make good lather. But it's as basic as you'll find. It has more scratchiness than a 620, which feels like a Silvertip by comparison. If I didn't have other boars, I'd certainly use this as the ultimate in budget back up brushes; a travel brush you wouldn't lose a minutes sleep over if you left it on holiday.
You can probably find another just like it. Just head down the Bussell Highway. Swing a left after Margaret River. Stop at the only place with a single bowser, call in and ask for Robbo or Shazza, or their teenage daughter, Indjaarna-TaylaRose. She'll sort you out.
What's this you shout aghast, Drubbing gone way downmarket? The SBAD must be terminal with this one. No. I already understand I'm not a completely normal and self-consciously always trying to keep away from the edge of the cliff.
This was a gift from Pjotr. I think it was a thank you for the Bluebeards Revenge, but he was too shy to say. Either way, he left the price tag on there - he wasn't shy about that. I never do that, because I always want people to guess my level of magnanimous generosity, but no such fancy airs and graces with our Pj. He went the whole (rock bottom shelf) hog and lashed out $1.75.
Given we live only a few k's apart, I can't decide whether he posted it to me to make it look like he spent some actual cash, or he was just too lazy to drop it in. Even so, it was pretty dumb. The postage cost him three times the brush.
What can you say about a $1.75 boar bought at one of country WA's general stores, where Pj suggest the yokels aren't so much the missing link, but more the lost tribe? The sort of place he describes as a one-horse town, but the store has a petrol bowser? A place where tinned peaches and beef jerky go out of date, and they are. It's cheap, that's what you can say.
Pj suggested I keep it for fun or PIF it. I thought I'd best not to make too many enemies online, and to try it out before offloading it on some poor sap who's listened to my inane rambling on the regality of the boar. I doubt this would be representative of the genre. I was right.
Let's check the quality on this thing. Well, its wood. It's painted (briefly) and it's got hair.
I'm no photographer, but no, you're not seeing things. It leans to the left all the way from the base of the handle to the tips. You can't see it in these pics, but the ring knot fits like a glove – if an octopus was wearing it.
I won’t say the blond knot is prickly, but if it were a comedian, it'd be Joan Rivers. I'm actually surprised some tips have started to split; I expected they would be clipped. It's must be a perverse sort of skill not to clip them, and still end up with something that's as uncomfortable as seeing the mother in law naked.
Having taken the piss, it does work. But this is as basic as it gets; if Semogue sell the BMW of boars, this reminds me of my first car, a Simca 1000; passengers had to help me get the gear stick into reverse.
I reckon the $5 boar at Coles could edge it out, but this one would have to start out in front because it hasn't dropped a hair. That's pretty impressive for less than $2. Guessing at the knot size alongside a couple of my boars, I'm thinking 20mm and 50mm loft, so it's always going to be on the scrubby side. My Semogue 1460 is 22/50, but is softer to the touch.
Here it is lathered up with some Tabac. As you might expect, it showed the soap no mercy; I have little bristle claws through the top of the soap.
So you can use it, and it'll make good lather. But it's as basic as you'll find. It has more scratchiness than a 620, which feels like a Silvertip by comparison. If I didn't have other boars, I'd certainly use this as the ultimate in budget back up brushes; a travel brush you wouldn't lose a minutes sleep over if you left it on holiday.
You can probably find another just like it. Just head down the Bussell Highway. Swing a left after Margaret River. Stop at the only place with a single bowser, call in and ask for Robbo or Shazza, or their teenage daughter, Indjaarna-TaylaRose. She'll sort you out.
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